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- Mythography: The Study of Myths and Rituals
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
summary
This new edition of William Doty's critically acclaimed study provides a comprehensive guidebook to the many schools of interpretation in this burgeoning field
William Doty's popular text has been hailed as the most comprehensive work of its kind. Extensively rewritten and completely restructured, the new edition provides further depth and perspective and is even more accessible to students of myth. It includes expanded coverage of postmodern and poststructuralist perspectives, the Gernet Center, mythic iconography, neo-Jungian approaches, and cultural studies, and it summarizes what is new in the study of Greek myth, iconography, French classical scholarship, and ritual studies. It also features a comprehensive index of names and topics, a glossary, an up-to-date annotated bibliography, and a guide to myth on the Internet.
Presenting all major myth theorists from antiquity to the present, Mythography is an encyclopedic work that offers a cross-disciplinary approach to the study of myth. By reflecting the dramatic increase in interest in myth among both scholars and general readers since publication of the first edition, it remains a key study of modern approaches to myth and
an essential guide to the wealth of mythographic research available today.
an essential guide to the wealth of mythographic research available today.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Preface: A ReadMe File for the User
- pp. xi-xviii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xix-xxii
- Part 1. Access To Tools and Definitions
- Part 2. Mythography: Historical Schools and Issues
- Part 3. Embodiments, Rites, and Ceremonials
- Part 4. Mythified Existence
- Furbishing The Creative Mythographer’s Toolkit
- i. Glossary
- pp. 461-465
- ii. Questions to Address to Mythic Texts
- pp. 466-467
- iii. The New Mythical Iconography
- pp. 468-472
- iv. Myth on the Internet
- pp. 473-475
- Bibliography
- pp. 493-568
- About the Author
- p. 578
Additional Information
ISBN
9780817388263
Related ISBN(s)
9780817310059, 9780817310066
MARC Record
OCLC
680046368
Pages
600
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2000